The backbiting catalogued in 'Fire and Fury' extends beyond the White House to Don Jr. and Eric Trump, who according to the book got a nickname from Iraqi bloodthirsty tyrants.

Author Michael Wolff mentions Don Jr. and Eric, stating early in his tome that 'behind their backs known to Trump insiders as Uday and Qusay.'

The two grown Trump sons feature in Wolff's 'Fire and Fury,' though they are spared some of the most vicious accounts of infighting that envelops Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, and other figures.

REPUBLICAN GUARD: Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump were called 'Uday and Qusay' behind their books, according to the new book 'Fire and Fury'

They took over control of the Trump Organization after Trump got elected, and now run it with an executive. Neither took White House jobs like their sister and brother in law Jared Kushner.

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Wolff doesn't explain why they earned such an unfortunate moniker. The two Trump sons show up in a section about how Trump and Kushner family members all 'supported their business enterprises to a greater or lesser extent working in the dubious limbo of international free cash flow and gray money.'

In one of the bombshell early bombshell excerpts of the book, Steve Bannon is quoted as referring to Don Jr.'s infamous Trump Tower meeting with Russians as treasonous.

Uday Hussain commanded the Fedayeen militia and made it as the Ace of hearts on a pack of 'most wanted' Iraqis that made their way through the U.S. military.

FAMILY BUSINESS: Saddam Hussein poses with his sons Uday and Qusay (R) in a photo from the private archive of an official photographer for the regime

Uday (R) was known to be more sadistic and had a playboy lifestyle

GOLD MEDAL BRANDING: President Saddam Hussein (C) is flanked by his two sons Uday (L) and Qusay (R) in this recent file photograph, released by the Iraqi government

He was known for brutally torturing perceived enemies of his father's regime, with his passion for violence and rape matched by a playboy lifestyle.

According to his obituary in Al Jazeera he was known for ordering women he desired brought to his room and for a flamboyant lifestyle and collection of cars.

Qusay controlled Special Republican Guards units, shielded weapons, and helped plot the defense of Baghdad, and may have been responsible for more deaths than his brother, according to the Telegraph.

The aside about Uday and Qusay is just one of many bits of information Wolff sprinkled throughout a book that took political Washington by storm.

One parenthetical passage mentions the tragic death of Trump's brother, an alcoholic who Trump spoke movingly about during a session on opioid addiction.

In section on children trying to get approval from the elder Fred Trump, Wolff writes: '(Trump's older brother, Freddy, failing in this effort, and, by many reports, gay, drank himself to death; he died in 1981 at age forty-three).'

Another detail shows Trump, who never served in the military but went to military school, interviewing candidates for national security advisor after he fired Mike Flynn.

DULL: Trump said National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster 'bores the s*** out of me' after his job interview, according to the book

When H.R. McMaster came in wearing his uniform, the general known for his literary bent, launched into a lecture on global strategy.

'That guy bores the s*** out of me,' Trump said when he left, according to the book.

Then McMaster returned in a baggy suit. 'He looks like a beer salesman,' Trump said at this iteration, adding he would hire him but didn't want to have another meeting.

President Trump tweeted that the book was 'full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist.'